Zoom in and out is terrible.

We just upgraded to 04 in my place of employment. The first thing I noticed
in large assembly was the jerkiness. If I load parts lightweight, it is
terrible when I rotate. If I resolve the parts, it rotates better. But the
zoom in and out is unbearable to us. There is a lag and the cursor sits
there for a second. Then it zooms in or out. We have tried every combination
of settings we could find and it is still crappy. 2003 ran flawless with the
same settings, PCs, video cards, ect. I brought the disks home and loaded
onto 2 home machines for an experiment. Generally my home PCs run much
better than the ones in work. Im still having the same problem. I was under
the impression that 04 was going to be "better". Im pretty disgusted at the
moment. Any ideas of a setting I might be missing. When I say "large
assembly" I am only working with maybe 500 parts tops Thanks, Jake Barron

 

which graphics card are you using?driver?

 

We were using 3D Labs VP870 cards. Today I dropped the Nvidia QuadroFX500
cards (I think thats what they were) and the results were much better. Its
kinda funny because 5 monthes ago the VAR was recommending the 3D Labs
cards. Now it the Quadros....sheesh, I cant keep up. Thanks for the help,
Jake Barron

 

Jake,

I hear ya....

We'd been using 3DLabs cards through two generations GMX2000 - GVX1, GVX210.
Good products with good drivers and support.

Back in those days, Nvidia products were quirky and immature. It seemed like
most people spent more time fussing with drivers and tweaks than they spent
working.

I'd hoped 3Dlabs would get their act back together with the new VP series
chips, but it doesn't look that way. The truth is, the lowliest Nvidia
580XGL blows away the best VP card, and they're stable and reliable to boot.
Now the high end Wildcat cards are another story.

I had no choice, I made the switch too. Never did buy a VP card though, the
posts on this NG saved me from that.

Regards

Mark